| Prodigy_BE said: F-J Warez I said, at one point. Just as the PSone, and the PS2 stopped at the 99$ price point. The more the price goes down and the bundles and stuff get more interesting, the more people buy the damn thing. So why the "Sony will not gain support from the mass market and the devs" remarks? EA has already said it is making PS3 its leading platform, Infinity Ward said it had its best people on the PS3 version and the Unreal 3 engine is finaly up to speed for the PS3. UT3 proves that. Multiformat devs want their games to sell as much as possible on all platforms, so they will make their games as good as possible on all platforms. And yes, they had trouble with the Cell in the beginning. Just as they had trouble with the PS2 in the beginning (I remember my Dreamcast games looking much better than my early PS2 games). But the more they work with it, the more they get to know it's power. And yes, Cell's power has more in store for us than the 360's cpu. Some developers have already started to unlock that power (Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank, Killzone...), and in due time the gap between top visuals in 360 and PS3 will become bigger. Look, I've got all three systems, and play all three systems, but Sony, doing what they always do (looking for advanced tech as their savoir), will come out on top in the end. And I believe in a + 100 million total sales. Which is more than 50% less than the PS3, if you look at the expansion of the market, by the way. |
The price means next to nothing without mass market appeal, no shovelware, no mainstream game, pure "hardcore" games = small market...
Sony will not gain support from most fo the devs, maybe big co´s like Ea want to support the system (Since the dev cost can be shared with the 360), and you are not going to notice a real gap between graphics... but most of the devs (the ones without large amounts of money) out there are not going to take the risk to support only the "expensive to develop" PS3, how many games has the PS3 vs the Wii (same time frame, and everybody thought that the clear winner will be the PS3)... you can argue quality, but the amount of quality games and the genre of the games just support the idea of small market...
Devs want money, the best shot right now is the Wii...
If visuals are the selling point of the PS3, well we know what a strong driving force are the "true next gen graphics"...
Sony, err, mmm, visuals and tech were not the selling point of the last two consoles..
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